Alena Maxová Books

Sees the return of the Deaf Man - taunting the boys of the 87th Precinct with enigmatic messages and ill deeds, specially for Christmas. The author also wrote "Lightning".

Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct faces the precinct's greatest foe, the Deaf Man, when the criminal returns to a life of crime in order to murder the city's graffiti artists

There are 186 patrolmen and a handful of detectives in the 87th Precinct, but it's never quite enough. Because between petty crimes and major felonies, between crimes of hate and crimes of passion, the city never sleeps -- and for these cops, a day never ends... The night shift has a murdered go-go dancer, a firebombed black church, a house full of ghosts, and a mother trying to get her twenty-two year-old to come home. The day shift: a naked hippie lying smashed on the concrete, two murderous armed robbers in Halloween masks, and a man beaten senseless by four guys using sawed-off broom handles. Altogether, it's a day in the life. But for a certain cop in the 87th Precinct, it could just be his last...

Vrahův žold Byl pohledný, elegantní, zazobaný – ale mrtvý! Vyděrač Sy Kramer, který zašel příliš daleko, vyfasoval svůj poslední žold – kulku do hlavy. Která z jeho obětí mohla ztratit tolik, že se uchýlila k vraždě? Detektivové z 87. revíru musí najít vraha protřelého vyděrače, než udeří znovu. Vyděšené oběti, které zastřelenému zločinci platily za mlčení, však policii vůbec nepomáhají… Jako z lásky Tommy a Irenese podle dopisu na rozloučenou rozhodli spáchat společnou sebevraždu otravou svítiplynem. Zpočátku vše nasvědčuje tomu, že se jedná o sebevraždu milenců, ale detektivům Carellovi a Hawesovi jejich řemeslo velí na první zdání nespoléhat. Při pátrání je Carella surově napaden neznámým mužem… Zemřela jako Sadie Steve Carella podezírá muže z vraždy jeho manželky, ale rychle se podaří vypátrat narkomana, který se přizná, že se do bytu vloupal a Sarah Fletcherovou zavraždil. Je však vyhráno? Bert Kling se zase jednou zakouká do jedné slečny a k tomu ještě nosí náramek od Meyera Meyera. A za pár dní jsou Vánoce…

When a young woman's body is fished out of the 87th Precinct's river, a street-wise detective is on the clock to find the con man who killed her before he strikes again. McBain forces us to think twice about every character we meet? even those we thought we already knew.? ?New York Times Book Review Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh mysteries into infinity, with no re-runs, and you have some sense of McBain's grand, ongoing accomplishment.? ?Entertainment Weekly

Smrt jde ženichovi v patách…a ženich má ten den svatbu s Angelou, sestrou Steva Carelly, jenže svatební hostina Tommyho a Angely se pro Steva a jeho kolegy ze sedmaosmdesátky změní ve smrtelnou hru na schovávanou. Carella má jen několik drahocenných hodina na to, aby vypáttal vraha a zachránil Tommyho před definitivním koncem. Ale jak najít vraha, když se skrývá mezi stovkami svatebních hostí? Je jím Tommyho svědek, který má zdědit po příteli všechen jeho majetek, pokud se vrahův úmysl zdaří? Nebo snad Ben Darcy, který dosud šíleně miluje Angelu a udělal by všechno na světě, aby ji získal zpět? Nebo ten bláznivý bývalý voják, který se zapřísáhl, že se Tommymu pomstí? Carella musí dopadnout vraha co nejrychleji, nemá-li se Angela stát ve svůj svatební den vdovou…

The lady looked like death personified. Dressed all in black she carried a handgun and a jar of nitro-glycerine in her handbag. She sat in the 87th Precinct squad-room, waiting for Detective Carella.

As Detective Steve Carella and Cotton Hawes investigate the burning of a warehouse filled with carved wooden figures, their case of arson is quickly complicated by murder.

Begins with what looks like a lynching and turns out to be a race for a publicity-conscious killer with a taste for young, female sports stars, while Kling's girlfriend Eileen stalks a highly systematic rapist. The author also wrote "Eight Balck Horses"

Detective Bert Kling has had some rough luck with women. First his fiancée Cindy Townsend was gunned down in an infamous bookstore shooting. Then there was Cindy Forrest, who informed him one day that she was in love with a doctor at work—and was gone. Now he’s finally hit the jackpot. Kling just married the beautiful model Augusta Blair, and they are about to enjoy the first night of their marriage together…until bad luck catches him again. When Kling gets out of the shower, Augusta is gone, leaving behind one shoe—and cotton soaked in chloroform. Even harder than calling Detective Steve Carella with the news is standing on the sidelines while the rest of the men do all the work. But he’ll have to—or he’ll never see her alive again. A spine-tingling race against time as the detectives of the 87th do what they do best, So Long as You Both Shall Live is an extraordinary addition to the series, an Ed McBain masterpiece that marries taut police procedure with the personal stakes of a man who stands to lose everything—again.

Steamy, erotic letters are found when a beautiful young woman is murdered - stabbed 32 times in a penthouse apartment - and her elderly lover is shot four times in the head. His ex-wife, two daughters and present wife are suspects as Detective Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct investigates.

When Emma Bowles is pushed under a train and then run down on the street where she lives, it is clear someone wants her dead. Even after her husband hires a private investigator to protect her, something is still very wrong. This is an 87th Precinct novel.

Výbor obsahuje na 30 povídek a novel jednoho z nejvýznamnějších bulharských spisovatelů (1878-1949). Náměty próz jsou čerpány ze života bulharské vesnice, jejž autor důvěrně znal, neboť sám pocházel z bulharského venkova a působil tu pak nějaký čas jako učitel. Děj se odehrává v 90.letech minulého století, kdy na vesničany počal těžce doléhat překotný růst kapitalismu v zemi. Rozsahem nejdelší povídka "Gerakové" líčí život bulharské rodiny, která opouští systém patriarchálního života a dostává se do prudkých vlastnických sporů a zmatků, až nakonec podléhá úplnému rozkladu.

Mladé vědecké pracovnici Julii Gordonové se podařilo proniknout do tajemného prostoru lidské paměti. Její výzkum by mohl znamenat významný pokrok při léčbě duševních poruch a nemocí souvisejících s odumíráním mozkových buněk, pro talentovanou a inteligentní Julii znamenal však daleko víc - podařilo se jí tak zachránit život vlastní sestře. Julie a Samanta jsou dvojčata, avšak dvojčata zcela odlišná jak povahou, tak schopnostmi, a dochází mezi nimi k mnoha konfliktům, pro něž se sestry téměř nestýkají. Samanta, nadaná malířka, jednoho dne upadne do kómatu a lékaři jí nedávají žádnou naději na přežití. Julie se rozhodne zasáhnout, a díky své vědecké metodě se dostane do "krajiny vzpomínek" své sestry. Zjistí, že Samantu se zřejmě někdo pokusil zabít. Kdo, proč a jak? Julie se musí vrátit daleko do své i sestřiny minulosti, aby odhalila zločince, jenž se pokouší zahladit stopy dávné vraždy dalším zločinem. Úspěch v souboji s vrahem jí přines nejen radost ze záchrany sestry, ale i nečekané poznání - Julie si uvědomí, jak hluboký vztah ji k sestře váže, a díky tomu přehodnotí i svůj dosavadní život. Oblíbený žánr vědecko-fantastického románu tak přerůstá v důmyslný psychologický příběh o složité cestě za tajemstvím lidských duší.

Six naked, murdered bodies on a cold January night put Detectives Carella and Kling in the middle of a full-on gang war and in a head-to-head battle with a mysterious criminal mastermind. Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh mysteries into infinity, with no re-runs, and you have some sense of McBain's grand, ongoing accomplishment.? ? Entertainment Weekly McBain forces us to think twice about every character we meet?even those we thought we already knew.? ? New York Times Book Review

A comedian dies on national television in front of forty million viewers, and the detectives of the 87th Precinct must solve the puzzle of how he made someone mad enough to murder. "Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh mysteries into infinity, with no re-runs, and you have some sense of McBain's grand, ongoing accomplishment." --Entertainment Weekly "McBain has the ability to make every character believable--which few writers these days can do." --Associated Press

The Oxford Bookworms Library extends the range of activities and teaching support of Oxford Bookworms and includes in each book an Activities section of Before Reading, While Reading and After Reading exercises. The six stages offer stories at different levels of ability.

The latest Ed McBain novel of the 87th Precinct. A young Catholic priest is brutally stabbed to death in his garden. A church practising satanism is not four blocks away and the cult sign of Baphomet is found scrawled on the garden gate.

Kniha známé americké autorky Svátost manželství, s podtitulem Na milostné pletky už nemám sílu, nepojednává o manželství nešťastném, jak by se na první pohled mohlo zdát, nýbrž právě naopak. Autorka v ní s neodolatelným humorem líčí téměř pětačtyřicet let manželského života, jeho radosti a strasti, chvíle štěstí i konflikty, problémy s dětmi i se sexem, prostě všechno, co osud může nastražit do cesty obyčejným manželům. Autorka láskyplně a shovívavě pozoruje pošetilosti jiných i své vlastní a komentuje život kolem sebe s pozoruhodným smyslem pro detail. Její příběhy čtenáře osloví nejen tím, jak se podobají jejich vlastním zážitkům s manželstvím a rodičovstvím, ale také zajímavě dokumentují, jak se v průběhu doby měnily názory a postoje nejen hlavní hrdinky, ale celé společnosti. Erma je nejprve bezradná novomanželka, později uštvaná žena v domácnosti a nakonec úspěšná fejetonistka, do jejíchž novinových sloupků se zamilovala celá Amerika. Za všech okolností a v každé situaci si však udržuje nadhled, vtip a pozoruhodně hlubokou životní moudrost.

This mugger is special. He preys on women, waiting in the darkness…then comes from behind, attacks them, and snatches their purses. He tells them not to scream and as they're on the ground, reeling with pain and fear, he bows and nonchalantly says, “Clifford thanks you, madam.” But when he puts one victim in the hospital and the next in the morgue, the detectives of the 87th Precinct are not amused and will stop at nothing to bring him to justice. Dashing young patrolman Bert Kling is always there to help a friend. And when a friend's sister-in-law is the mugger's murder victim, Bert's personal reasons to find the maniacal killer soon become a burning obsession…and it could easily get him killed. The second book in the 87th Precinct series, The Mugger is an Ed McBain classic, a nuanced portrayal of justice and vengeance hailed by the Daily Mirror as “a masterpiece of crime writing…and there's nobody who does it better.”

First published in 1848, a novel in which a woman flees from a disastrous marriage with her child to a desolate moorland mansion. It portrays one woman's struggle for independence at a time when law and society defined a married woman as her husband's property.

A young girl jumps to her death, a salesman gets blown apart, and two semi-nude bodies are found dead on a bed with all the carmarks of a love pact. Spring was really here for the 87th Precinct. Carella and Hawes thought the double suicide stank of homicide, but the couldn't get a break. Fortunately, Hawes had something going with Christine - like love...

Follows the story of Colley Donato who holds up a liquor store and kills a policeman in the process. Being on the run he is helped by a few dubious friends but it is all down to him in ord

By day the city works. By night it plays, and everyone is invited to the game: the rich the poor, the adventurous and the tame. Sometimes, the playground turns deadly. Sometimes, the homicide detectives from the 87th Precinct are invited, too... Sadie When She Died The victim had a knife plunged in her chest. The husband was glad, and didn't hide it. From the beginning, Detective Carella is sure someone was hired to make the murder look like an interrupted robbery. Then the dead woman's secrets begin to come out of the closet. Now happily married, Steve Carella and unhappily single Bert Kling are entering a city's sexual underground to find out which is more dangerous: a world where anything goes or a husband with secrets of his own. Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1477805613

This early work by S. S. Van Dine was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Bishop Murder Case' is one of Van Dine's novels of crime and mystery. S. S. Van Dine was born Willard Huntington Wright in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1888. He attended St. Vincent College, Pomona College and Harvard University, but failed to graduate, leaving to cultivate contacts he had made in the literary world. At the age of twenty-one, Wright began his professional writing career as literary editor of the Los Angeles Times. In 1926, Wright published his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright went on to write eleven more mysteries. The first few books about his upper-class amateur sleuth, Philo Vance, were so popular that Wright became wealthy for the first time in his life. His later books declined in popularity as the reading public's tastes in mystery fiction changed, but during the late twenties and early thirties his work was very successful.

At the decadent French court of King François, the young Anne Boleyn grows into an enigmatic and striking woman, a temptation to many courtiers. But whilst Anne's ambitions are high, she has learned from her sister's unfortunate reputation. Unlike Mary, Anne refuses to become even a King's mistress. So when Anne returns to the English court of Henry VIII, it is the King who is led a dance by this mysterious young beauty. Before long Henry is lured away from his stale marriage to Katharine of Aragon. But the new Queen Anne is not loved by the people, and it is only a matter of time before Henry's patience runs out...

When Detective Steve Carella, investigating two baffling murders, discovers that his major leads are coming from a beautiful psychic, he abandons standard police procedures for the eerie world of the occult

The stirring story of Henry VIII's final marriage, to Katharine Parr. Already twice widowed, Katharine finally dares to hope that she might find love with the dashing Thomas Seymour - but Henry has decided he must have a sixth wife and Seymour's intentions to marry Katharine have not gone unnoticed.

Historický román o osudech královny Marie Stuartovny, která se zapsala do anglických dějin jako velmi pozoruhodná žena. Marie Stuartovna se stává skotskou královnou již v útlém dětství. Za svůj nezáviděníhodný život vystřídala několik manželů, kteří se sňatkem s ní snažili upevnit svá mocenská postavení. Její tchýně Kateřina Medicejská, toužící ovládnout sama francouzský trůn, posílá mladičkou Marii Stuartovnu do Skotska, kde však coby katolička nenachází u protestantských poddaných porozumění a dochází dokonce k povstání. Autorka líčí skotskou panovnici Marii Stuartovnu jako osobnost něžnou i prchlivou, která dovedla být nejen okouzlující ženou, ale i vražedkyní.

October at the 87th Precinct. During an Indian summer it took a multiple murder in a downtown bookshop to shatter the calm. Four people are dead - and one of them is Detective Bert Kling's fiancee. From the author of "Hail to the Chief" and "The Blackboard Jungle".

The fourth of Jean Plaidy's Tudor novels in which Henry VIII secretly plots his divorce from Katherine of Aragon.

The eyes of the neighborhood are on the detectives of the 87th and the criminal who challenged them as the city simmers with escalating gang violence. “The 87th Precinct [is] one of the great literary accomplishments of the last half-century.” —Pete Hamill, Newsday “McBain forces us to think twice about every character we meet…even those we thought we already knew.” —New York Times Book Review

Jerome McKennon's last phone call before he died had been to a woman called Marilyn. On the evidence of her answer phone, a very popular woman and a prime suspect in the case. For Hal Willis of the 87th Precinct, this would be far more than just another crime investigation.

Detective Hawes is on the trail of the man who wrote he was going to kill the lady at 8 that night.

In this city, you have to pay attention. In this city, things are happening all the time, all over the place, and you don't have to be a detective to smell evil in the wind. Take this week's tabloids: the face of a dead girl is splashed across the front page. She was found sprawled near a park bench not seven blocks from the police station. Detectives Carella and Brown soon discover the girl has a most unusual past. Meanwhile, the late-night news tracks the exploits of The Cookie Boy, a professional thief who leaves his calling card -- a box of chocolate chip cookies -- at the scene of each score. And while the detectives of the 87th Precinct are investigating these cases, one of them is being stalked by the man who killed his father. Welcome to the Big Bad City.

Rauher Osten Wilder Westen Kathleen Winsor Print 1968

The third of Jean Plaidy's Tudor novels, continuing the story of Katherine of Aragon's failing marriage to the adulterous Henry VIII ... Henry's affection for his older wife soon strays, and the neglected Katherine decides to use her power as Queen to dangerous foreign advantage.

She was young, wealthy - and dead. Strangled to death in a slum apartment. All they had to go on was her name and some cancelled cheques. As Steve Carella said, 'Those cheques are the diary of her life. We'll find the answer there.' But how was he to know that they would reveal something much stranger than murder? On Passover the rabbi bled to death. Someone had brutally stabbed him and painted a J on the synagogue wall. Everyone knew who the killer was - it had to be Finch, the Jew-hater. Or did it...? The snow was pure white except where Cotton Hawes stared down at the bright red pool of blood spreading away from the dead girl's body. Hawes was supposed to be on a skiing holiday, but he couldn't just stand by and watch the local cops make a mess of the case. He had to catch the ski-slope slayer before he killed again.

Calypso King George Chadderton was murdered on a September street in the 87th Precinct. Then Clara Hawkins, a black hooker, ends up the same way - from the same Smith and Wesson. Cops Carella and Meyer see little sense in it all, as the autumn rain washes their evidence away.

„Nic se nemůže stát,“ ujišťuje Della O'Connorová své kamarádky ze školního klubu. Co na tom, že jejich profesor s nimi nemůže jít na dvoudenní výlet – tím víc legrace užijí, když se tam nebude motat žádný dospělý! Všechna legrace však přestává, když se Della v lese ztratí a když se objeví nebezpečný cizinec, který jí vyhrožuje a nakonec jí dožene k násilnému činu. A najednou se to týká i jejich přátel a když se všichni společně snaží utajit strašlivou pravdu, stanou se z nich zajatci společného mlčení. Někdo viděl Dellu při činu! A vyhrožuje nejen jí, ale všem, a přinutí je vrátit se zpátky na ostrov, kde najdou důkazy, jež zapomněli zahrabat…

An 87th precinct novel about a leading lady in a play called "Romance" whose life is threatened.

A romantic saga which spans the lives of three generations of Cornish folk. First published in 1931.

An 87th Precinct crime novel, in which a country man comes to the city to sell his carvings to the retail stores and tries to get up his nerve to talk to someone at the 87th Precinct about an undiscovered, very old corpse.

The fiftieth novel in the 87th Precinct series is a gritty, witty tour-de force combining violence, fear and treachery with Ed McBain's inimitable leavening of laughter and selfless heroism.

Detektivové z 87. policejního revíru řeší další obtížný případ, tentokrát únos osmiletého chlapce. Únosci se však omylem zmocní jiného dítěte, výkupné však přesto požadují na bohatém podnikateli Kingovi. Nakolik bude King ochoten obětovat majetek, kterého se domohl tvrdou prací, za život cizího dítěte? Nakolik se policistům podaří případ zvládnout? Román je tedy jak pohledem na policejní práci, tak nahlédnutím do snadno zničitelných lidských vztahů a osudů.

Román o aténském stratégovi, dramatické a rozporuplné postavě peloponéské války mezi Athénami a Spartou. Odchovanec Periklův a žák Sokratův, vynikající voják a bezohledný politik slouží bulharské autorce, povoláním historičce, ke kritické reflexi motivace lidského jednání a k zkoumání řady lidských charakterů. Román zpřítomňuje historické události poukazem na jevy opakovatelné i dnes.

Detektivní román z anglického prostředí. Soukromý detektiv Campion je anonymními dopisy vyprovokován k účasti na pátrání po pachateli dvou vražd a jedné nedokonané, přičemž orientačním bodem je pro něho skutečnost, že v jednom ze dvou zavražděných mužů poznává člověka, jemuž byl již jednou na pohřbu, a posléze, že se mrtvola tohoto muže v kritický okamžik zase ztrácí.